2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Digital Ethnographic Mapping of Neighborhood Foodscapes in Shanghai and Tokyo
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16K04099
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
Farrer James 上智大学, 国際教養学部, 教授 (40317508)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | urban sociology / foodways / culinary fields / food and society / night-time economy |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This year the project has produced new data and new publications and presentations. The most weighty of these is a monograph on the expatriate population of Shanghai. This book outlines the contribution of Shanghai expatriates to the creation of cosmopolitan culinary communities in the city. Other book chapters published this year add other dimensions to this discussion of the creation of cosmopolitan culinary cultures in Shanghai. One focuses on the creation of culinary streets. Another focuses on the creation of transnational culinary fields. Another focuses on the associations of food with well-being. The Tokyo component of the research has been very productive through the original web page called Nishiogiology.org. This page has now produced over 50 reports in both English and in Japanese. This component of the project has also resulted one published journal article and several conference presentations which are due to be published as articles in the coming years. The main focus of this Tokyo research is on the creation of artisanally based culinary communities. It has been featured on NHK World's "Tokyo Eye" and other media. The comparative framework of this research is resulting in conference presentations that show the ways in which transnational culinary communities are formed in different contexts. Research articles are planned that describe culinary communities in a comparative context.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research is moving forward at a good pace. The publications related to Shanghai have been progressing faster than expected, while the data gathered in Tokyo has been of such a large quantity that the final writing up of the project is a bit slower than expected. The comparative urban component of the study is progressing well. The project has resulted in one monograph about Shanghai and a series of chapters. The Tokyo project has resulted in a ethnographic data archive that is being used both to write academic papers and to produce public scholarship. The later is introduced on www.nishiogiology.org. This research result was featured on NHK World's program "Tokyo Eye 2020."
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In terms of data gathering, there is a need this year to collect more comparative data as well as to work on the primary Tokyo data collection more intensively. This is being done by ethnographic fieldwork visits and interviewing. In terms of publication, the goal this year is to produce articles based on the comparative urban research data as well as articles based on the Tokyo data. Several conference presentations, articles and books are planned.
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| Causes of Carryover |
During 2018 I made very good progress on the project but the use of the budget was less than foreseen. 2019 is my sabbatical year, and I will focus on the fieldwork and completing the project, especially the overseas components of the research.
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| Remarks |
This webpage publishes the fieldwork from the Tokyo component of this JSPS funded research project. It has produced more than 50 articles in both Japanese and English and been featured on NHK World.
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